Hi Ian,
> It will start to get interesting once the hardware, on a general-purpose
> machine, passes 8 or so cores.
I hope all have noted the abstract for David May's Keynote paper at CPA
next week ...
http://www.cs.surrey.ac.uk/host/cpa2007/programme.html
For the abstracts, scroll down to below the timetable. David is talking
hundreds of cores, :). You will also be excited by the new ideas for
(very very very) fine-grain concurrency being expressed by Tony Hoare -
in his Keynote address that opens the conference.
See you next week!
Cheers,
Peter.